Gloom Cupboard

  I had the pleasure of recently attending a book launch in Dublin in The Winding Stair, an independent bookshop where books were hung like wind chimes or dream-catchers in the window, exceptional for its picture-window view of one of the capital city’s most attractive landmarks, the Ha’penny Bridge.  Garlanded with icicle-blue Christmas lights, the [...]

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Only the Ground Is Bloodier Than the Sky: A Review of Joseph M. Gant’s Zero Division by Craig Scott Zero Division by Joseph M. Gant Rebel Satori Press www.rebelsatoripress.com

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At Don Quixote’s house, before his journey, there was nothing more dangerous than a poet. Centuries later, one wonders if a poem can still cause any real movement—if a protest poem read from the steps of a capitol can cause any chip in the marble, or in the windmill across the way. Stacia Fleegal’s Versus acknowledges [...]

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One of the most important (and productively hurtful) things a writing mentor once said to me, after reading a piece I’d written and rewritten I didn’t know how many times, was “Good job. Second draft out of ten.” Jesus Angel Garcia’s “transmedia” novel, badbadbad, though presented as finished, seems in actuality at a similar awkward [...]

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Contributor to ‘The Gloom Cupboard’ and more recently to ‘Full of Crow’, Miceál Kearney is a breath of fresh air to Irish poetry, as evidenced by his first collection, ‘Inheritance’.  To anyone familiar with contemporary Irish literature it seems like we’re plagued by books harking back to the golden past of a rural setting, they [...]

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Authors get advances. Writers get day jobs. This is a guest post by CalebJRoss as part of his Stranger Will Tour for Strange blog tour. He will be guest-posting beginning with the release of his novel Stranger Will in March 2011 to the release of his second novel, I Didn’t Mean to Be Kevin in [...]

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I’m loath to knock the idea of self-publishing, or self-published poets, especially as I went down that route for my first three chapbooks, but there are many worthwhile lessons to be learned by submitting to and publishing in literary magazines, establishing a track record of publication before seeing one’s first full collection go into print. [...]

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A Review of Craig Sernotti’s Forked Tongue—If You’re Into That Very early in the movie Meet Joe Black—far too soon for anyone to expect it—Brad Pitt gets creamed by a speeding van, and the theater, at least the one I was in, hung back in silence before nervous laughter bubbled out into the air as [...]

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